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Christopher Cieri & Malcah Yaeger-Dror

ccieri@ldc.upenn.edu & malcah@email.arizona.edu

Intro to NSF-LDC Satellite

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Th Three ee Co Coding ding Fo Foci ci

Today‘s main foci –

Ethics

ics

Dem

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raphic coding: ding: has been upgraded constantly to reflect linguists‘ needs, but there are recurring problems where we under-differentiate.

Attitude coding: towards one‘s own and others‘ groups

Tomorrow‘s main focus

Social Situation— interaction among speakers‘ demographics Drawing some conclusions

Et Ethi hical cal Re Revi view ew

Given  that the questions we ask set the IV mood

 that insufficient information precludes sharing  that often there are difficulties getting permission  A few do‘s and don‘ts of ethical review board interaction

 Natasha Warner– LSA‘s ethics panel  Denise DiPersio—LDC‘s ethics proposal writer

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Co Codi ding ng:

: Labov‘s Ru Rule e #1 #1

Use more distinctions than you need!

It is easier to merge groups later Than to recode from scratch. You can‘t put back what you didn‘t code… You can‘t compare if the features aren‘t there to

compare – ―Pollock/Hinton effect‖

So, even if there were little evidence for the

importance of X in Y community, but more evidence for its importance in Z community: do it!

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Th Three ee Co Coding ding Fo Foci ci

Today‘s main focus –

 De

Demographic mographic coding: ding: has been upgraded constantly to reflect linguists‘ needs, but there are recurring problems where we under-differentiate.

 *EMPHASIZING*  The speaker‘s expertise  Research design adapted to permit sharing.

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Dem emogr

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Region

ion

Sex (M/F) Racial

ial or He Herit itage age group(s)

Years of education Age

Age

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Dem emogr

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 So

Soci cioe

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conomic ic background/place within the society{SES ML…}

 Sexuality--Eckert  Racial

cial or r Her eritage itage group(s)

 {how far back? How mixed? How strongly identified?}

 Black

ck– Blake ke

 Hispanic

panic—Fought Fought

 Asian

ian—Wong/Hall Wong/Hall-Le Lew

 Age

Age –Bowie

 Rel

elig igious ious affiliation--Bowie

Egyp gypt: t: Co Copt pts, s, vs

• vs. Br

Broth ther erhood hood

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Re Religion ligion a La Lang nguage uage

 The province of historical linguists or social psychologists  Blanc‘s work in the 60‘s

 Bagdad – entirely based on religion, with sociophonetic distinctions.

Milroy‘s work in the 70‘s Belfast

 Giles‘ early work in the -70‘s

 Belgian [French/Catholic] vs. Flemish [Dutch/Protestant]  Quebecois [French/Catholic] vs. Anglophone [Protestant]

More recent work on ‗language and religion‘ in the Near East

 /q, r, …./ varies with religion/ or degree of religiosity.

More recent work on ‗degree of religiosity‘ in the US

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Atti ttitu tudes des

 Today‘s main foci –  De

Demographic mographic coding ding

Attitude coding: towards one‘s own and others‘ groups

 Llamas – North of England  Nagy, Hoffman – Toronto  Noels—conceptual  Poplack--Sociolinguistic importance of attitudes

 Tomorrow‘s main focus  Social Situation--Attitude Coding: attitudes towards one‘s own

and others‘ group

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Social cial Situa tuation tion

 Social Situation—

 Tagliamonte  Rickford

 The interlocutors, and the relationship between them  The ovehearers –ratified and not. (Bell)  Taking advantage of ‗serendipitous situational switching‘  Place

 Llamas

 Interaction of demographics among interlocutors  Interaction of degree of commitment to each other or outsiders (Bell)

 Discussion of how to archive factors

 Interaction between interlocutors‘ demographics  Attitudes towards ones own and interlocutors‘ demographics

Archival necessities…

Whateve ever r gro roups ps we e have e they ey should uld all ll be rep e represe resented nted

We e want t to sugges ggest t ways ys in which ch we can accommod

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ate our coding ding conventions ventions to new insig ights hts about ut Spea eaker ker demog mogra raphics phics Speakers‘ attitudes the influence luence of social cial attitude tudes s on self lf-ident identifi ifica cation ion. As s well l as our r need ed to attend end to va variab iability lity in self lf-identification identification persp rspectives, ectives, eve ven n when en inter eracting acting with h a single ngle inter erlocutor locutor.

Thes ese e talk lks s focus us on possi sible ble ways s to det eter ermine mine thes ese e factors, tors, And how bes est to unify y our r coding ding pro rotocol tocols to per ermit mit us to share re data a among

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Thanks to NSF

& LDC

for funding